Citizen Kane. Fell asleep during Citizen Kane at three separate screenings at film school. Note: My dozing off for twenty minute intervals was NOT a review of the film, but a natural reaction to early morning film school classes. it ain’t half bad as far as movies at 9 in the morning go. The fact that it happened three times was just coincidental.
Tokyo Story.
What’s up, VGPS. When I come across a Kinks reference, I have to say something. Banal, I fell asleep during Tokyo Story as well… okay, twice. It was late and I’d just worked out. Don’t judge me. That’s going with Ghandi in my all-time favorite films that made me doze off more than once file.
“My night at Maud’s”.
What a predectible film. Boring characters. An apollogy to bourgeois status quo. A perfect shame compared to Godard, Marker, and Resnais’s films from those years.
No frames to remember, no sequences.
Glengarry Glenross twice, but at the time I wasn’t sleeping much.
Hello back Jay. Tokyo Story would be very good to nap in. The better the film, the better the nap.
“Birth of a Nation.” I respect DW Griffith in regard to his place in cinema history, but as for his films, they just aren’t my cup of tea.
Voyage to Italy…The end all be all of slow movies.
I missed maybe like 10 mins of Tarkovsky’s The Mirror, but it’s a beautiful film nonetheless
The Crying Game
Midnight Cowboy
Cries and Whispers
Strangers on a Train
The Departed.
Fell asleep midway through it.
I’ve gotten into the bad habit of falling partly asleep during almost every movie I watch, and then often having to rewatch them because it kept me from getting really involved in the movie.
The Passenger was a particularly bad case. Vampyr, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Sansho the Bailiff, Wild Strawberries… I’ve seen them all in the past month or two, and I’ve dozed off at the halfway point of pretty much all of them.
It’s because being at home in front of a big TV is so relaxing after an anxious day of work. Still a bad habit, though.
Lost in Translation! As much as I love that film, it’s like tranquilizers on celluloid.
Tarkovsky’s Mirror…..I dozed off but I kept dreaming of the images even while sleeping…. trance.
This is sad. I love this film, but Wings of Desire.
………………..eraserhead..but only because it was 5am, the LAST SCENE.
I can’t fall asleep during movies. I’m usually too aware of the fact that I’m watching something. If I feel that I’m too tired to give it my attention, I’ll shut it off.
There are, however, two exceptions to this. 1. The Killing Fields. It was late at night (or really early in the morning), and I fell off for a while. I need to watch this movie again sometime. 2. Platoon. I’ve seen it again since my first viewing, but on that first viewing I dozed during that final battle scene where everything is dark, and you can’t really make anything out on the screen. It put me to sleep.
I was about to post that “Birth of a Nation” is the quintessential fall-asleep movie, until I remembered that I dozed off for the majority of “The Big Sleep”. LAWL.
Dog Star Man, the first time I tried to watch it.
And what’s that movie called, Me You and Everyone We Know? The Miranda July one. I actually forced myself to go to sleep during it.
All of you confessors:
7 Hail Marys and 3 Rosaries
“Sans Soleil – but its one of my top films.”
I have the same probleme. Absolutely love the film, but I can’t help falling asleep at some point. I’m not sure but I may have never finished it… :/
Nosferatu (1922). I tried watching that movie twice – and fell asleep twice.
I watched Day for Night for one hour, then fell asleep and woke up to find that the movie had ended. I then proceeded to watch Day for Night from where I left off and fell asleep briefly after.
Similar to the trance that Tangerine experienced watching Tarkovsky, a girlfriend and I both dozed on and off together while sitting in the balcony years ago trying to watch Has’ “The Saragossa Manuscript”.
It’s one of those story-within-a-story-within-a-story roundelays. The funny thing is that the film affected both of us this way. We would nod off and, when we regained consciousness, the story had segued. We hadn’t a clue what was happening and we’d catch another 40 winks before awakening again…to another weird story…and so on and so on.
It was like a trance, like both of us were hypnotized and our memories of the film were like filaments of some weird, shared dream.
The only films that made me fall asleep were:
1. To Sleep so as to Dream
2. The Bad Sleep Well
3. I Don´t Want to Sleep Alone
4. The Big Sleep
5. The Science of Sleep
Mother and Son. It had been a long day. I shouldn’t have gone. I nodded. I returned to see it again in fresher condition.
The first time I saw Satantango I figured I’d probably cop some z’s. Oddly, it didn’t happen (thank coffee and a Milky Way, I guess). Neither did it happen the second time (again: coffee/sugar). I did blink a few times during Werkmeister Harmonies, though. Go figure.
Satantango and a Milky Way? Nice! I’ll have to remember that when I finally decide to tackle Satantango.
I can’t say I fall asleep to movies. Usually if I find myseld nodding off I’ll just turn it off and go to bed. The only time I started dozing off in the theater was for Waltz with Bashir. I don’t know if I was just tired or what but I couldn’t focus on that film. But I tend to have a difficult time with animated films to begin with. I don’t know…I really love seeing actors.
I definitely drifted in and out of “Rebel Without a Cause.” I also went in and out of the first 15-20 minutes of “Hearts and Minds.” Then, (and I don’t know where) that movie grabbed me and didn’t let me go.
Most of Kurosawa, some Hitchcocks, and every single Westerns.
I tried to watch Lord of the Rings 4 times, and I never managed to watch it for longer than 30 minutes.
I have no patience for 2001 Space Odyssey, either.
Greg Harris
If they had actually done half of what the play does, “Chicago” would have been a great film. Let’s just say they lamed it up, and that’s why it won the Oscar.